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Having just completed the first draft of my personal statement, and undertaken a colossal reading list over the summer holidays, I am obliged to select universities. As a history applicant, I intend to apply to the following;

Oxford
Kings College London
York
St.Andrews
Edinburgh

Any reflections on the above would be welcome, however, in the unthinkable event of my not being accepted to one of the first 4, I require another "safety net". Advice required....

Hull

How do I find out about going to University? Things like applying, how to choose Universities, what I'll actually do at University etc. (I've just started 6th form)

don't go to Cardiff. it's shit

How do I find out about going to University? Things like applying, how to choose Universities, what I'll actually do at University etc. (I've just started 6th form)

Consult any tutors, sixth form advisors, career advsiors and Connexions as a starting point. If you know what you want to do start lookng into the universities already as time will just fly by. I'm in the process of writing and rewriting my personal statement as I'm applying this year. Oh yeah also talk to people who have been through the process and gone to university.

For an exciting 4(possibly less) years, i suggest UNI: University of Northern Ireland

Well, I'm just getting stuck into the personal statement. I applying to Glasgow, Dundee, maybe Oxford/Cambridge and and undefined forth university for medicine.
Can anyone make any suggestions about medical unis?

For an exciting 4(possibly less) years, i suggest UNI: University of Northern Ireland

Going to a non-existant college, while being an interesting metaphysical experience, may not be the most helpful suggestion.

York is great! (other than Tang Hall and Acomb, which are shitholes, but also miles away from the uni, really.)

And the uni is good also - largest amount of ducks in the UK for a uni, and you get expelled for killing them (even if it's just because you need the food).

Beware of getting a bottom-floor front-window room on the campus, mind, people stick bread on the window so that the ducks and other birds peck it all morning.

Anyway - Good town, some top-end pubs and clubs here, and Fibbers if you're into your rock music. Well worth going to.

*edits*

And the good Manchester one (City?) is a top uni also, although the town's not as nice.

iam from the US but iam applying to St andrews, Aberdeen, possibly Warwick and maby a few others...
iam useing the app on the ucas site and iam quite stuck on the personal statment... i have no idea what to write...:(

And the uni is good also - largest amount of ducks in the UK for a un

this single fact makes me want to give up my life plan and go to this university for no apparent reason other than seeing the ducks “quack quack” :D

Come to Oxford Brookes (http://www.brookes.ac.uk). We rock and you can still say that you go to University IN Oxford and not technically be lying...

Write a list of all the other colleges covered by UCAS and throw a dart at it. If you miss the list entirely, then get a job in Tescos.

this single fact makes me want to give up my life plan and go to this university for no apparent reason other than seeing the ducks “quack quack” :D
Damn right.

And if you're into geese, then in winter just take a walk over the beautiful Millenium Bridge, go about 300 metres to your right, then take a left, and you'll be at the entrance of Rowntree's park.

The skatepark is also a really good place to smoke weed (if you're into that kind of thing) because you get obscured by the ramps etc.

And there are climbing frames and such, and wide expanses for playing footie, as well as an all-weather heated pond (note : it's heated by the enormous bacteria levels, not any man-made source!).

Yep, York is nice.

Edinburgh is a very good university, and if you go there, I'll be within convenient raping distance. :D

My current list is Oxford, Warwick, York, Manchester, Exeter, and Lancaster. If you want a seriously safe safety net try Stirling: they only want CCC for some subjects.

My current list is Oxford, Warwick, York, Manchester, Exeter, and Lancaster. If you want a seriously safe safety net try Stirling: they only want CCC for some subjects.

There's a reason for that. Stirling doesn't give very highly regarded degrees.

iam from the US but iam applying to St andrews, Aberdeen, possibly Warwick and maby a few others...
iam useing the app on the ucas site and iam quite stuck on the personal statment... i have no idea what to write...:(

Since for some obscure reason I actually quite like you, would you like me to send you mine?

My current list is Oxford, Warwick, York, Manchester, Exeter, and Lancaster. If you want a seriously safe safety net try Stirling: they only want CCC for some subjects.

WARWICK IS AWFUL. Concrete jungle?

Since for some obscure reason I actually quite like you, would you like me to send you mine?

if you dont mind that would be awsome
:fluffle:

why is warwick so bad- iam under the impression that is a rather good school, i do admit that i have only see pictures of the campus, never seen it in real life

why is warwick so bad- iam under the impression that is a rather good school, i do admit that i have only see pictures of the campus, never seen it in real life

The campus is like a Martian colony transported back to the home planet: you could throw a geodesic dome over the top of it and seal it off from the rest of the world without the vast majority of people there noticing it. Student entertainment on the campus caters almost exclusively to the lowest common denominator and the whole place has a creepy ahistorical feel to it. If you ever saw A Very Peculiar Practice, you'll get an immediate feel for it - disturbingly enough the business and science schools have since strengthened their grip on the university and the humanities and arts are being pinched further and further.

Living outside the campus either leaves you in Coventry, a city which had its soul burnt out in 1940 and any remaining breath of life crushed by the city planners in the 1950's, or in the picturesque small towns around it: Kenilworth, Leamington Spa and Warwick are very nice places to spend a day wandering around, but not the kind of place you really want to live. When I was at Warwick these small towns were also gripped by waves of resident on student violence.

Academically it is a very good place, but it is hard to focus on your studies when you feel a little part of yourself dying every day.

I was thinking of applying to Warwick but that final story I have heard about it (thank you Bodies without Organs) has led mt not to apply there. I'm going to have a look at Northampton, Roehampton, Lincoln and Southampton.

I was thinking of applying to Warwick but that final story I have heard about it (thank you Bodies without Organs) has led mt not to apply there.

Woah there, personal opinion and all that. May I suggest hopping on a train and visiting the place to see what you make of it before making such a big decision on the basis of my own individual experience? Some people certainly seemed to like the place.

Having just completed the first draft of my personal statement, and undertaken a colossal reading list over the summer holidays, I am obliged to select universities. As a history applicant, I intend to apply to the following;

Oxford
Kings College London
York
St.Andrews
Edinburgh

Any reflections on the above would be welcome, however, in the unthinkable event of my not being accepted to one of the first 4, I require another "safety net". Advice required....


come to edinburgh! the city is fantastic and the history course is piss easy!

you actually did reading before going to uni!? i've never understood dedication:confused:

Come to Oxford Brookes (http://www.brookes.ac.uk). We rock and you can still say that you go to University IN Oxford and not technically be lying...

actually my tutor (or at least a teacher) told me that fot the history department (in which th OP seemed interested) is better at brooks than at oxford "proper":confused:

I'm putting on my list:

Imperial London
Sheffield
Cardiff
Nottingham

I just need to find out which month and with which board I did my GCSEs with.

UCAS? I didn't bother. I just contacted the university directly at the last minute and still got in, and that's without having to list every detail of my life and then write an essay. I'd suggest one of the universities in Manchester (or Salford if you got shit grades). It's great here, and you NSers can look me up when you first get here and we'll go on a pub crawl. :)

St.Andrews
Edinburgh


I live in Edinburgh, it's a pretty cool Uni.

Did my Undergrad degree at St.Andrews, also pretty cool and very small. Good and bad sides to that, it depends how sociable you want to be.

What course do you want to study (generic, ancient, mediaeval, modern, etc)?
How sociable do you want to be?
What sports do you want to do and do you want to be 'successful' at them?

If you want, drop me an e-mail and we can have a proper talk about them both.

Thames Valley?